Al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī said: When the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr died, a man came to my father and said, “I saw him in a dream; he was standing in the prayer-niche of the congregational mosque of Shīrāz, clad in a robe with a crown on his head studded with jewels. I asked, ‘How has Allah dealt with you?’ He replied, ‘He forgave me and honoured me.’ I said, ‘For what reason?’ He answered, ‘Because of the frequency with which I invoked blessings upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.’”
He passed away in 382 AH.

349 – al-Raqqī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb *
The ḥāfiẓ, itinerant hadith scholar and historian Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Raqqī; he was also known as Abū ʿAbd Allāh.

He narrated from Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Shawdhab al-Wāsiṭī, Khaythama al-Aṭrābulusī, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Ibn Fāris al-Iṣbahānī, and several others.

Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Jumayʿ in his Muʿjam—though Ibn Jumayʿ was older than he—Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭayyān, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr al-Dimashqī.

Al-Khaṭīb criticised him over a hadith that al-Miskīn transmitted with a chain satisfying the conditions of the authentic collections, traced back to the Prophet: “The hadith scholars will come on the Day of Resurrection carrying their inkwells in their hands.” (1) Responsibility for that report rests with this al-Raqqī.